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On approach to Sønderborg Airport while completing an ambulance flight, the twin engine airplane went out of control and crashed into the Augustenborg Fjord. A young female passenger aged 14 and a nurse were able to swim to the shore while the airplane sank. Its wreckage was found four days later, on November 11, and all three other occupants were killed.

The crew was completing a local training flight at Billund Airport, Shortly after takeoff, while in initial climb, the twin engine airplane went out of control and crashed near the runway end. Both pilots were injured and the aircraft was destroyed.

The pilot was performing a ferry flight from Stornoway to Sønderborg. On final approach, the twin engine airplane went out of control and crashed in a huge explosion. The pilot was killed.

Crashed in unknown circumstances into the sea off Esbjerg while conducting a training mission. All four crew members were killed.

The bomber aircraft departed RAF Lissett at 1754LT on a bombing mission over Berlin. While flying over the region of Flensburg, north Germany, when it was hit by Flak. With both left engines on fire, the captain decided to reduce his altitude and to attempt an emergency landing. Eventually, the aircraft crash landed in a fruit plantation located in Trappe, in the region of Sønderborg, south Denmark. All seven crew escaped uninjured while the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.
Crew:
William C. M. Hogg, pilot,
F/Sgt Bernard V. Millett, navigator,
Sgt George A. Naylor, flight engineer,
Sgt Ronald H. E. McLaren,
Sgt George E. Ksendz,
Sgt Peter L. Chamberlain, bomb aimer,
F/Sgt Robert McDonald, wireless operator.

While cruising by night over Denmark, the bomber was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in a field, killing all seven crewmen.
Crew:
Arthur S. O'Connor, pilot,
James Watters, flight engineer,
Gerald A. Twigge,
Albert Mayes,
Albert J. W. Saxty,
Vernon L. Miles, navigator,
Thomas K. Dudley, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Downham Market at 2327LT on July 28 on an operation to Hamburg. Approaching the German border, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed into the sea off Rømø Island, Denmark. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O Roger Charles Eldridge, observer,
P/O Colin Macqueen Farquharson,
Sgt Rodney Kenneth Helyer, flight engineer,
Sgt Ronald Douglas Horder,
Sgt Norman Jackson, wireless operator,
Sgt Harold Windle, wireless operator,
Sgt Russell Stanley Brandish, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Wyton at 1840LT on an operation to Lübeck. Approaching the Danish coast, it was shot down by the German Marine Flak and crashed into the sea off Tjæreborg. Six crew members were killed while both air gunners became PoW.
Crew:
P/O Robert Lorraine Melville, pilot,
Sgt Dennis Robert Barrett, pilot,
Sgt Robinson Nicholls, flight engineer,
P/O Kenneth Arnott, navigator,
Sgt Henry James Ian Lockhart, wireless operator,
Sgt John Evan Francis Waylan, wireless operator,
Sgt George Alfred Donovan, air gunner,
Sgt Lancelot Charles Masfen, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Binbrook at 0009LT on an operation to Duisburg. Flying along the Danish coast, it crashed in unknown circumstances into the sea off Oksby. All five crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O David Arthur Welch, pilot,
Sgt Robert Francis Shorthouse, wireless operator and air gunner,
F/Sgt Harold Hugh Harrison,
Sgt John Girvan Reid,
Sgt John George Strachan.

The airplane departed RAF Syerston at 2225LT on a mine laying operation in the Danish Sound off Verbena. Approaching the Danish coast, it was shot down by the German Flak and crashed into the sea some 30 km off Esbjerg. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
S/L Peter Wynn Mason West, pilot,
P/O Robert Lorne Storey, observer,
Sgt Eric Knight,
F/O Robert Wallace Komiski,
Sgt Edward Colin Marshall, wireless operator,
Sgt John Walter Morton, wireless operator,
Sgt Jack Brown, air gunner.